FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread

[knowngunman]

I was a strong supporter of Super Eagles but the way things are going I am not in support of them and it is better for them not to qualify because they will still disappoint us like the previous World Cup in which they were knocked out from the group stage. So if they qualified for this time too, there is no good hope. Just look at the way they are molested in the just a qualifiers stage and that means they can't do anything in the main game. So instead of them going out to give fans heart attack then it is better to stay back.

The fact still remains that we need to give them the support necessary as a fan because it would be a total disgrace to the entire country for a country like Nigeria who happens to be giants of Africa not to participate in the World Cup tournament for two consecutive seasons. I remember the same thing happened prior to the commencement of AFCON and behold they started poorly in the group stages but ended with more decent performances despite being defeated in the final. The problem is they are used to be unserious at the early stage perhaps due to absence of self confidence and this sometimes affects the entire process. The head coach who was appointed not by merit has tender his resignation, hopefully they might do well to hire someone who can deliver the work to our expectations.

[Slow death]

To be honest I've watched most of the Copa America games so far from USA and I can say with confidence their stadiums are looking great to host World Cup and also the numbers they provide for fans is actually insane and that's why I think the next World Cup will be one of the most amazing experiences for fans to watch football games. What will most likely be a down vibe , will be the expensive prices on absolutely everything because we can see this already happening in Copa America but also in Euro germany where prices went up with almost 200% in almost all categories.  

many people like to travel to the USA, many people see the USA as the country of opportunities, just see that many celebrities live in the USA, many films are made in the USA, I'm talking about good films. By this I mean that the next World Cup will have a greater chance of being a great success compared to the last World Cup, in the USA people will be freer and even if ticket prices increase a lot, people will still buy a lot . Canada is also an excellent country from what I have seen on TV for many years. But the country has problems, I'm talking about Mexico

I don't know if security in Mexico has improved much because I've still been reading news saying that the US government is complaining about guys jumping from Mexico to the US illegally, so there's a large number of people leaving Mexico for the US illegally, it means that the situation in mexico is not good, so how will the us government deal with people during the world cup? This article from theguardian.com shows how the situation on the Mexican border with the USA is not good

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/07/mexico-border-explained-chart-immigration

In my opinion, choosing Mexico for the World Cup could result in many more people from Mexico wanting to cross the border illegally during the event and tourists who go to watch the games in Mexico could also suffer serious consequences. I have seen situations of people who traveled innocently but after being searched by the police discovered that they had put drugs in their suitcases without them knowing, I have also seen cases of people who traveled by car to another country and in another country were threatened to put drugs in their bags. someone without documents in his car to be able to cross the border

[Hirose UK]

The brasiliam team is in second place in group D with four points.
Incredibly, Vini Jr scored two goals, one of which almost dribbled past the goalkeeper (I think that goal is fantastic). I expected a draw or defeat for Brazil, given their current performance, this might rekindle hopes.

That is satisfying result and of course this victory also gives Brazil the opportunity to qualify for the quarter-finals of Euro 2024 hopefully, several young players can make Brazil strong team in the future.

For the World Cup qualifiers, the South American zone itself still has more than half of the overall match schedule remaining because everyone will have 18 matches and is currently still in the 6th round.
Brazil itself in the World Cup qualifying standings in the South American zone is still in 6th place with 7 points and 2 wins, this means that Brazil has to fight very hard to be able to get really comfortable position, and be able to enter the main World Cup competition.
Meanwhile, the top of the standings is still held by Argentina with 15 points and got 5 wins, followed by Uruguay and Colombia, they are quite strong team and for the Copa America itself, the three of them were able to become the team that topped their respective group.

[emrecemsan]

The brasiliam team is in second place in group D with four points.
Incredibly, Vini Jr scored two goals, one of which almost dribbled past the goalkeeper (I think that goal is fantastic). I expected a draw or defeat for Brazil, given their current performance, this might rekindle hopes.

Oh, I thought for once that we had World Cup qualifiers matches going on from where they left.    I guess you were confused with the thread name.

Here is the Copa America thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5477050.0

As you have mentioned Brazil, they have been terrible in the qualifiers.    Only 7 points in 6 matches... I must admit that they are promising in the Copa America recently. The new coach is doing well for now but I would like to see them recovering for the World Cup qualification too.

I really like Brazil squad. There are many talented players who have a good potential. They have only needed to be managed in the right way.

[DaNNy001]

The brasiliam team is in second place in group D with four points.
Incredibly, Vini Jr scored two goals, one of which almost dribbled past the goalkeeper (I think that goal is fantastic). I expected a draw or defeat for Brazil, given their current performance, this might rekindle hopes.

This is exactly what I just stated few minutes ago about their convincing win. Brazil has being quite off with their performance and lots of their fans and spectators were actually having doubt about the way the whole performance is going to turn out especially with the on going Copa America but this win of their has actually brought some level of trust and certainty for the team.

[Frankolala]

The brasiliam team is in second place in group D with four points.
Incredibly, Vini Jr scored two goals, one of which almost dribbled past the goalkeeper (I think that goal is fantastic). I expected a draw or defeat for Brazil, given their current performance, this might rekindle hopes.

This is exactly what I just stated few minutes ago about their convincing win. Brazil has being quite off with their performance and lots of their fans and spectators were actually having doubt about the way the whole performance is going to turn out especially with the on going Copa America but this win of their has actually brought some level of trust and certainty for the team.

Yea of course the win has made fans start having hope in them again, because they never started the competition well but with their last victory in which Vini scored two goals shows that they are capable of going far.

If Brazil did not go far, it can affect Vini in winning Ballon d'or which Brazil should work today and strengthen the bond in attack so that together they can achieve success and Vini chance of winning Ballon d'or.

[DanWalker]

Less creativities of attacking midfielder I think main problem of Brazil downtrend performance at the first Copa America 2024 match after being draw against Costa Rica.
Indeed more dominance with ball possession but Brazil less created attempt or shots on goals after not top perform their attacking line players Vinicius Jr and Rorygo. But too early comparison the first match of Brazil in Copa America after failure get the winning match result behind have many matches left and potential Brazil will play more aggressive on second match against Paraguay.

Brazil had many top talent attacking line but the main problem how they can get service well from holding midfielder, looks with Rorygo and Vinicius Jr performance with Real Madrid in this season both of them contributed well for winning La Liga and Champion League trophies. But with national team both of them can't get well service such as with Real Madrid and difficult for scoring goals, I believe for next match Vinicius Jr or Rodrygo will score the goals if get good service from attacking midfielder.

To be fair I do not think that their problem is with talent, they have enough talented players to do better than what they have done so far, it is obvious that they should be beating a lot of their opponents, probably all until now, with the type of talent they have.

@armanda90, Problem of Brazil is that the team not being balanced at all. And we all know that the Brazil team or the Brazil country in general is able to produce a lot of wingers. And the wingers are really high-quality. If we look at the quality of the wingers and the quality of the players in other positions, it is actually not even comparable. They do not have many quality players in other positions.

One thing that people mistake about Brazil is that they think Brazil has a lot of great strikers. But they actually do not. The wingers are actually not strikers. That is why the finishing from Brazil is not the best as well. Not having a very good balanced squat is also a big reason why they are suffering in big competitions

[Leviathan.007]

To be honest I've watched most of the Copa America games so far from USA and I can say with confidence their stadiums are looking great to host World Cup and also the numbers they provide for fans is actually insane and that's why I think the next World Cup will be one of the most amazing experiences for fans to watch football games. What will most likely be a down vibe , will be the expensive prices on absolutely everything because we can see this already happening in Copa America but also in Euro germany where prices went up with almost 200% in almost all categories.  

many people like to travel to the USA, many people see the USA as the country of opportunities, just see that many celebrities live in the USA, many films are made in the USA, I'm talking about good films. By this I mean that the next World Cup will have a greater chance of being a great success compared to the last World Cup, in the USA people will be freer and even if ticket prices increase a lot, people will still buy a lot . Canada is also an excellent country from what I have seen on TV for many years. But the country has problems, I'm talking about Mexico

I don't know if security in Mexico has improved much because I've still been reading news saying that the US government is complaining about guys jumping from Mexico to the US illegally, so there's a large number of people leaving Mexico for the US illegally, it means that the situation in mexico is not good, so how will the us government deal with people during the world cup? This article from theguardian.com shows how the situation on the Mexican border with the USA is not good

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/07/mexico-border-explained-chart-immigration

In my opinion, choosing Mexico for the World Cup could result in many more people from Mexico wanting to cross the border illegally during the event and tourists who go to watch the games in Mexico could also suffer serious consequences. I have seen situations of people who traveled innocently but after being searched by the police discovered that they had put drugs in their suitcases without them knowing, I have also seen cases of people who traveled by car to another country and in another country were threatened to put drugs in their bags. someone without documents in his car to be able to cross the border

I didn't watch the gams in America a lot as you watch but as I said because I think you are right and the fission FIFA made was a wise decision because America got enough good sports facilities in their country to have better hosting than other countries while unlike the last world cup in Qatar they also don't need to spend too much money and force the workers to build new stadiums while the only thing they need is to repair what they already have.

[Rampagoe004]

One thing that people mistake about Brazil is that they think Brazil has a lot of great strikers. But they actually do not. The wingers are actually not strikers. That is why the finishing from Brazil is not the best as well. Not having a very good balanced squat is also a big reason why they are suffering in big competitions

I think what makes Brazil one of the best in football is that they have a lot of great players who can score goals. They once had a great defender and a great midfielder. On average, Brazilian players in the past had great finishing. But Brazil today is not the same as Brazil in the past. I agree with you that Brazil no longer has a striker with excellent finishing. Vinicius is my player and not a striker although he can be positioned as a striker if the team doesn't have a pure striker.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

One thing that people mistake about Brazil is that they think Brazil has a lot of great strikers. But they actually do not. The wingers are actually not strikers. That is why the finishing from Brazil is not the best as well. Not having a very good balanced squat is also a big reason why they are suffering in big competitions

I think what makes Brazil one of the best in football is that they have a lot of great players who can score goals. They once had a great defender and a great midfielder. On average, Brazilian players in the past had great finishing. But Brazil today is not the same as Brazil in the past. I agree with you that Brazil no longer has a striker with excellent finishing. Vinicius is my player and not a striker although he can be positioned as a striker if the team doesn't have a pure striker.

Wow wow, 😂
How time really flies, sincerely appreciate discussion like this as it reminded me of when I was pretty much a kid, or better still, a teenager, I remember the high regard we used to have for the Brazilian football team, because they were simply the best of all, I mean, nothing anyone could have told me back then that changes my mind, I remember when me and some friends in those days used to have a very long and heaty arguments at school, concerning Brazil and other team during an ongoing world cup tournament, and I remember not giving regard to my country's football team but will never want to miss the match when ever Brazil was playing 😂.

But unfortunately, even good times change, and today, Brazil football team is no longer the same Brazil football team I knew back then, what really happened to them? Did they stop hurting for new and young talents to join their football squad? Or is it that people of great football talent are no longer born in their country?..this and many more questions I have in my head.

[Docnaster]

One thing that people mistake about Brazil is that they think Brazil has a lot of great strikers. But they actually do not. The wingers are actually not strikers. That is why the finishing from Brazil is not the best as well. Not having a very good balanced squat is also a big reason why they are suffering in big competitions

I think what makes Brazil one of the best in football is that they have a lot of great players who can score goals. They once had a great defender and a great midfielder. On average, Brazilian players in the past had great finishing. But Brazil today is not the same as Brazil in the past. I agree with you that Brazil no longer has a striker with excellent finishing. Vinicius is my player and not a striker although he can be positioned as a striker if the team doesn't have a pure striker.

The truth about the Brazilian national team in recent years is that they've not had the best natural no.9 strikers but one thing you can't take away from them is the fact that they're always equipped with prolific attackers mostly from the flanks. They have wingers who would easily help the team get results whenever it matters most and that's the most important thing in football. Not having natural no.9 strikers hasn't been a barrier to the Brazilians if you ask me.
Currently, the Brazil national team arguably have the best talented set of attackers in the world but none of them is natural striker. They might not be the best FIFA ranked team in the world at the moment but the truth is that the depth in the Brazilian squad is undoubtedly one of the best

[wiss19]

I didn't watch the gams in America a lot as you watch but as I said because I think you are right and the fission FIFA made was a wise decision because America got enough good sports facilities in their country to have better hosting than other countries while unlike the last world cup in Qatar they also don't need to spend too much money and force the workers to build new stadiums while the only thing they need is to repair what they already have.

Having events in the USA always amazing because we are having one of the best sports facilities here from rest of the world now as we are having big changes in FIFA World Cup things are going to be more excited as we will have 48 teams and three countries are going to co-host this mega event but as we will have things in the USA I have strong feeling no other country can do.

In last world cup which we have in Qatar there were too many restrictions and problems for the fans which want to watch games into stadium, but now things are completely at the new level with we will have the best atmosphere in stadiums for the soccer fans currently we are having Copa América games in USA so we can have view how they are doing for the world cup with many stadiums are already had all preparations for the mega event as well.

[nullama]

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The truth about the Brazilian national team in recent years is that they've not had the best natural no.9 strikers but one thing you can't take away from them is the fact that they're always equipped with prolific attackers mostly from the flanks. They have wingers who would easily help the team get results whenever it matters most and that's the most important thing in football. Not having natural no.9 strikers hasn't been a barrier to the Brazilians if you ask me.
Currently, the Brazil national team arguably have the best talented set of attackers in the world but none of them is natural striker. They might not be the best FIFA ranked team in the world at the moment but the truth is that the depth in the Brazilian squad is undoubtedly one of the best

Yeah, still Brazil is the best team overall, in the long run.

Sure, they might lose a game here and there, but everyone fears them.

They are the best team by far in my mind.

[armanda90]

The performance was not good for one of the host teams for the FIFA World Cup 2026 United States national team at Copa America 2024 after failing to advance to the group stage.
The United State teams failed reach the knock out round after collecting three points only behind 2 loss of 3 matches. I doubt the host national teams performance although have two years left before kick off of FIFA World Cup begin after United State and Mexico get totally failed in Copa America, only Canada have better performance after success qualifying to quarter final round.

Usually the host of FIFA World Cup national teams participants not playing on qualifier round, its bit difficult for United State, Mexico and Canada can't reach the top performance and not only becoming the completed teams in World Cup matches such as last edition Qatar national teams failure reach the knock out round.

[Hewlet]

The brasiliam team is in second place in group D with four points.
Incredibly, Vini Jr scored two goals, one of which almost dribbled past the goalkeeper (I think that goal is fantastic). I expected a draw or defeat for Brazil, given their current performance, this might rekindle hopes.

This is exactly what I just stated few minutes ago about their convincing win. Brazil has being quite off with their performance and lots of their fans and spectators were actually having doubt about the way the whole performance is going to turn out especially with the on going Copa America but this win of their has actually brought some level of trust and certainty for the team.

from what's going on at both the Euros and Copa America, Brazil has really been a big flop in thier performance and hasn't been that consistent with thier play. From all indications, teams that will show full dormainnace in the world cup would most likely be teams from the euros and how competitive their tournament has been has already given an indication that they have most of her things all figured out in preparation for the coming world cup. Spain and Germany has been too incredible and from the Copa America perspective, Argentina stands out while it's most likely that any other team that will emerge as a top contender will most likely come in as an underdog. I'm anticipating teams that will do so well to be amongst these which are Argentina, France, Spain, Germany. So far in the continent, they are for me the most organized at the moment.

[Adiljutt156]

The brasiliam team is in second place in group D with four points.
Incredibly, Vini Jr scored two goals, one of which almost dribbled past the goalkeeper (I think that goal is fantastic). I expected a draw or defeat for Brazil, given their current performance, this might rekindle hopes.

This is exactly what I just stated few minutes ago about their convincing win. Brazil has being quite off with their performance and lots of their fans and spectators were actually having doubt about the way the whole performance is going to turn out especially with the on going Copa America but this win of their has actually brought some level of trust and certainty for the team.

Brazil  team won the match and the result of match was same as was expected. Brazil players played with unity and nobody kicked wastly and  Brazil team score was 4 . Júnior did 1st and 3rd goal for the team he was looking we do the 3 goals but he could not do third goal. He bent the match to their side and applied pressure on the Paraguay team. In Copa America Cup ,the performance of  Brazil is top class and they are favorite and they have capacity to win this Cup. I think luck also plays a big role to win any kind of tournament. I am very impressed by performance of Brazil players because they did hard work and they are doing well in the ground and that is not easy task . I salute to skills of Brazil players because they should many qualities in last match

[snipie]

The brasiliam team is in second place in group D with four points.
Incredibly, Vini Jr scored two goals, one of which almost dribbled past the goalkeeper (I think that goal is fantastic). I expected a draw or defeat for Brazil, given their current performance, this might rekindle hopes.

Oh, I thought for once that we had World Cup qualifiers matches going on from where they left.    I guess you were confused with the thread name.

Indeed he was confused about this tournament that followed World Cup Qualifiers. For Brazil, it is very sick at this point. They were bad in the qualifiers game and they are showing bad results also in Copa America. Regardless of the actual competition result, do Brazilian people like seeing their team playing that way? Is it hard to find a suitable coach to improve the national team?

[Leviathan.007]

One thing that people mistake about Brazil is that they think Brazil has a lot of great strikers. But they actually do not. The wingers are actually not strikers. That is why the finishing from Brazil is not the best as well. Not having a very good balanced squat is also a big reason why they are suffering in big competitions

I think what makes Brazil one of the best in football is that they have a lot of great players who can score goals. They once had a great defender and a great midfielder. On average, Brazilian players in the past had great finishing. But Brazil today is not the same as Brazil in the past. I agree with you that Brazil no longer has a striker with excellent finishing. Vinicius is my player and not a striker although he can be positioned as a striker if the team doesn't have a pure striker.

The truth about the Brazilian national team in recent years is that they've not had the best natural no.9 strikers but one thing you can't take away from them is the fact that they're always equipped with prolific attackers mostly from the flanks. They have wingers who would easily help the team get results whenever it matters most and that's the most important thing in football. Not having natural no.9 strikers hasn't been a barrier to the Brazilians if you ask me.
Currently, the Brazil national team arguably have the best talented set of attackers in the world but none of them is natural striker. They might not be the best FIFA ranked team in the world at the moment but the truth is that the depth in the Brazilian squad is undoubtedly one of the best

A very long time ago, Brazil was a team that relied on some legendary players like Pele and Ronaldo, this team lost these players but they will try to find these players and they stick to their traditions that's why they were counting on Neymar but since Neymar got injured they couldn't have good performance anymore. After they find a new legend, Vini and now the bad news for Brazil about Vini is it seems he is injured too.
 

[Ruttoshi]

One thing that people mistake about Brazil is that they think Brazil has a lot of great strikers. But they actually do not. The wingers are actually not strikers. That is why the finishing from Brazil is not the best as well. Not having a very good balanced squat is also a big reason why they are suffering in big competitions

I think what makes Brazil one of the best in football is that they have a lot of great players who can score goals. They once had a great defender and a great midfielder. On average, Brazilian players in the past had great finishing. But Brazil today is not the same as Brazil in the past. I agree with you that Brazil no longer has a striker with excellent finishing. Vinicius is my player and not a striker although he can be positioned as a striker if the team doesn't have a pure striker.

The truth about the Brazilian national team in recent years is that they've not had the best natural no.9 strikers but one thing you can't take away from them is the fact that they're always equipped with prolific attackers mostly from the flanks. They have wingers who would easily help the team get results whenever it matters most and that's the most important thing in football. Not having natural no.9 strikers hasn't been a barrier to the Brazilians if you ask me.
Currently, the Brazil national team arguably have the best talented set of attackers in the world but none of them is natural striker. They might not be the best FIFA ranked team in the world at the moment but the truth is that the depth in the Brazilian squad is undoubtedly one of the best

A very long time ago, Brazil was a team that relied on some legendary players like Pele and Ronaldo, this team lost these players but they will try to find these players and they stick to their traditions that's why they were counting on Neymar but since Neymar got injured they couldn't have good performance anymore. After they find a new legend, Vini and now the bad news for Brazil about Vini is it seems he is injured too.

Vini is the hope that Brazil has currently and if he is injured, it will be a problem. I believe that Vini after injury will Puck form again because he is a strong black player that has the zeal to be on his best form. Since the history of football Brazil are known to be a country with good strikers till date.

It is just that only the strikers cannot do it alone and they need the full team to be in a good form so that they can win one of the upcoming world cup. I don't think that will happen soon because other strong countries have professional players in their team who is doing better than the Brazilians.

[nullama]

The brasiliam team is in second place in group D with four points.
Incredibly, Vini Jr scored two goals, one of which almost dribbled past the goalkeeper (I think that goal is fantastic). I expected a draw or defeat for Brazil, given their current performance, this might rekindle hopes.

Yeah, the thing is that Brazil is still one the strongest teams in the world.

Sure, they might lose from time to time, but at the end of the day they are really good.

Never underestimate your rival.